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<blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 1832765" data-attributes="member: 18701">I was worried that I was being really vague when asking for advice, but the replies have helped a lot.The suggestion about asking &quot;why&quot; is tough. I'm always asking &quot;why&quot; for everything; even in everyday life. I'm always curious why people do or say certain things so I questions them about it. So that's the first thing I do when players ask about things reguarding the game. The problem is, and I assume it's like this 95% of the time at anyones table; the answer to the question &quot;why&quot; will usually be, &quot;Because it's cool&quot;.And that's the answer in this case. He's a fan of vampires...so he's tried hard to come up with ways to get his Fey'ri to be a vampire later on in the game. He also chose Fey'ri because it looks like a vampire. So his answer to the question &quot;why&quot; will naturally be, &quot;Because I think vampires are cool and I would like to play one...they kick butt!&quot; He may come up with a secondary reason related to roleplaying and character history only to help support his need to play the PC build...but the real answer is &quot;because it's cool&quot;. I think that's our answer for doing anything in an RPG. When I think about this also (I could be wrong though)...it assures me even more that he's powergaming because he didn't just create a PC who was a Vampire Spawn in a way that would allow him to be at the correct ECL due to level adjustment. He chose a powerful race with a class and THEN wanted to beef it up more by trying to become a vampire later on. So it's not like he just wanted to play a Vampire for the sake of playing a Vampire (he could've picked a race with no LA without taking a class, and then adjust the ECL for the Vampire template )....but the way he went about it makes it seem more like he wants to play an &quot;uber-vampire&quot; (which I assume is powergaming).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oryan77, post: 1832765, member: 18701"] I was worried that I was being really vague when asking for advice, but the replies have helped a lot. The suggestion about asking "why" is tough. I'm always asking "why" for everything; even in everyday life. I'm always curious why people do or say certain things so I questions them about it. So that's the first thing I do when players ask about things reguarding the game. The problem is, and I assume it's like this 95% of the time at anyones table; the answer to the question "why" will usually be, "Because it's cool". And that's the answer in this case. He's a fan of vampires...so he's tried hard to come up with ways to get his Fey'ri to be a vampire later on in the game. He also chose Fey'ri because it looks like a vampire. So his answer to the question "why" will naturally be, "Because I think vampires are cool and I would like to play one...they kick butt!" He may come up with a secondary reason related to roleplaying and character history only to help support his need to play the PC build...but the real answer is "because it's cool". I think that's our answer for doing anything in an RPG. When I think about this also (I could be wrong though)...it assures me even more that he's powergaming because he didn't just create a PC who was a Vampire Spawn in a way that would allow him to be at the correct ECL due to level adjustment. He chose a powerful race with a class and THEN wanted to beef it up more by trying to become a vampire later on. So it's not like he just wanted to play a Vampire for the sake of playing a Vampire (he could've picked a race with no LA without taking a class, and then adjust the ECL for the Vampire template )....but the way he went about it makes it seem more like he wants to play an "uber-vampire" (which I assume is powergaming). [/QUOTE]

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